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Selecting drawing units
From the course: AutoCAD 2016 Essential Training
Selecting drawing units
- In this video, I'll discuss units. One of the first things that you want to do before you get started drawing is select a system of units. Open the Architectural Imperial Units sample file from the chapter two folder, and then type U-N, Enter, for units. This drawing is currently set to Architectural, which means the foot and inch system. The symbol of inches is the double quote here. The symbol for feet is this single quote. They're both on the same key next to the Enter key on the keyboard. You don't actually have to ever type in the inch symbol because AutoCAD is going to interpret a number, like 18, as 18 inches. You could alternatively enter that as one foot six. That's one ' six, and AutoCAD will interpret that as 18 inches just the same. You also have these other choices for units. So let's say I was using the metric system. I would select Decimal units in that case. Engineering units are actually based on feet and inches, but they use decimals. So if I wanted to say 18…
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